The New Iphone 3G S

If you've been following the whole iPhone craze you know that the iPhone 3G S came out this past Thursday. PC World reports that even though Apple sold 1 Million of these units in the past 3 days, it doesn't surpass the attention the world gave the iPhone 3G last July. What I find amazing is that people are even buying new iPhone in the middle of one of the greatest recessions in the past 50 years. Think about your life one year ago in June 2008. The recession was more of a slowdown back then - not the full bore recession it is today. Think about the kind of things you were doing, where you were going, and how you viewed the future. Now think about today. Amazing how a recession makes the world a different place.

On the way home from work the other day I heard this article on NPR indicating that the Iphone and smartphone market is actually growing. The smartphone market is in it's infancy stage - only 10% of everybody out there owns a smartphone. The article says the smartphone business is a "booming business" growing by 40% during the past year alone. The thing the separates smartphones from a regular phone is that a smartphone is "like a laptop in your pocket." You can do the same things on your smartphone that you can do on a laptop or Netbook - you can check email, surf the internet, make flight reservations, find phone numbers, and social network. You can do all those things without sitting down at a desktop computer and cranking it on. You don't have to pull out your laptop and open it up! You simply pull out smartphone and go to town. It's incredible if you really think about it.

What else is incredible is that, as people get smartphone and do more, they'll come to expect more and more from their pocket sized machines. My daily job has always taught me to look for trends in the marketplace and work world. Since I love technology I'm also looking for trends in that world as well. My prediction - in just 5 years about 80% of everybody will have smartphones and except to do everything on them that we now do on desktops and laptops. In fact, I think that this whole smartphone thing is more than just a new technology - it's a revolution. It's a quiet, continuously growing, highly sought after revolution. Why do I think that? Why else would people spend $200 to $400 on a technical gadget in the middle of this crazy recession? Because they want what the technical gadget is delivering - the want the smartphone.

One thing's for sure - people will expect more and more from smartphones and smartphones will deliver more and more. What will thinks look like in 5 years? Who knows? Time will tell.
What do you think? Email me your thoughts.

-Jeremy Ashburn
Revital PC
http://www.revitalpc.com/